About 40 angry residents told the five-member JRPP that Baiada's odour modelling is wrong, a burial pit is built on a geological fault line and there will be more than five million kilograms of refuse generated every year.

Despite the objections, the planning panel, which included two Tamworth councillors, approved the project.

Chairman Garry West did acknowledge the community needed more say and proposed a community consultative committee.